28 Jan
2021
28 Jan
'21
7:59 a.m.
I was just an engineer but what John said sort of is what I thought. There
was some money weirdness around anything above nroff/troff. I don't think
it was $5 but as I said, I was an engineer, nobody directly told me this
stuff.
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 08:25:33PM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
Actually It was very cheap. $5 a copy if I remember
correctly Masscomp
and Stellar just ate the cost. The adobe transcript license was also
nominal. In both cases we realized it was cheaper than trying to keep two
separate streams and figure out which systems we shipped it too.
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 7:26 PM John Gilmore <gnu(a)toad.com> wrote:
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Greg A. Woods <woods(a)robohack.ca> wrote:
Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual As I recall even some of the bigger vendors such
as Sun and IBM didn't
offer ditroff in their base OS, but they did offer old troff. Those
were the days of insane AT&T licensing and all the games competitors
played around it.
As I recall, AT&T wanted about the same amount of money for ditroff as
for the entire UNIX release. So, of course no UNIX vendor was going to
double the royalty they paid to AT&T for every customer, for a small
improvement in a utility that most customers didn't even use (troff).
John
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